PMID- 12413399 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20030314 LR - 20181113 IS - 0264-6021 (Print) IS - 1470-8728 (Electronic) IS - 0264-6021 (Linking) VI - 370 IP - Pt 1 DP - 2003 Feb 15 TI - Hypoxic activation of the atrial natriuretic peptide gene promoter through direct and indirect actions of hypoxia-inducible factor-1. PG - 149-57 AB - Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is a cardiac peptide, the transcription of which is up-regulated in the ischaemic ventricle. However, the molecular mechanism of ANP induction is unclear. This study demonstrated that ANP mRNA expression in rat ventricular myocardium is induced in an early phase of ischaemia, preceded by hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) alpha expression. The ANP gene was also induced by hypoxia or HIF-1 inducers such as CoCl2 and desferrioxamine in H9c2 and neonatal cardiomyocytes. The 2307 bp 5'-flanking region of the rat ANP gene was cloned and fused to the luciferase gene. Evidence of the promoter activity was only apparent in the myocytes and was induced by hypoxia and HIF-1 inducers. The overexpression of HIF-1alpha markedly enhanced ANP promoter activity, and a dominant-negative isoform completely suppressed it. We demonstrated that the promoter regions are essential for hypoxic ANP induction. One promoter region, containing the HIF-1-binding sequence, is regulated directly by HIF-1. The other region is also activated by HIF-1 despite having no HIF-1-binding sequence. These results suggest that HIF-1 enhances the transactivation of the ANP gene in hypoxic myocytes, implying that stimulation of the ANP promoter by HIF-1 may in fact be responsible for the induction of the ANP gene in ischaemic ventricular myocardium. FAU - Chun, Yang-Sook AU - Chun YS AD - Human Genome Research Institute and Cancer Research Institute, BK21 Human Life Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, South Korea. FAU - Hyun, Ju-Yeon AU - Hyun JY FAU - Kwak, Yong-Geun AU - Kwak YG FAU - Kim, In-San AU - Kim IS FAU - Kim, Chan-Hyung AU - Kim CH FAU - Choi, Eunjoo AU - Choi E FAU - Kim, Myung-Suk AU - Kim MS FAU - Park, Jong-Wan AU - Park JW LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Biochem J JT - The Biochemical journal JID - 2984726R RN - 0 (DNA Primers) RN - 0 (DNA-Binding Proteins) RN - 0 (Hif1a protein, rat) RN - 0 (Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1) RN - 0 (Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit) RN - 0 (Nuclear Proteins) RN - 0 (Transcription Factors) RN - 85637-73-6 (Atrial Natriuretic Factor) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Atrial Natriuretic Factor/*genetics MH - Base Sequence MH - Blotting, Western MH - Cells, Cultured MH - DNA Primers MH - DNA-Binding Proteins/*physiology MH - Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay MH - Gene Expression Regulation/*physiology MH - Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 MH - Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit MH - Immunohistochemistry MH - Myocardial Ischemia/metabolism MH - Myocardium/metabolism MH - Nuclear Proteins/*physiology MH - *Promoter Regions, Genetic MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - *Transcription Factors MH - United States PMC - PMC1223144 EDAT- 2002/11/05 04:00 MHDA- 2003/03/15 04:00 PMCR- 2003/08/15 CRDT- 2002/11/05 04:00 PHST- 2002/11/04 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2002/10/30 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2002/07/10 00:00 [received] PHST- 2002/11/05 04:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2003/03/15 04:00 [medline] PHST- 2002/11/05 04:00 [entrez] PHST- 2003/08/15 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - BJ20021087 [pii] AID - 10.1042/BJ20021087 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochem J. 2003 Feb 15;370(Pt 1):149-57. doi: 10.1042/BJ20021087.